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London Depositions of Witnesses taken at
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London, that is to say, at the Parish of
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December 1789
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Francis Creecroft
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then and there lying
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John Bolter
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an
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to Mrs: Dugard of Nine Yard
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maketh Oath that about the hour of Sen in the
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Morning of Tuesday last the 8th instt Dept: being at
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Stairs situate in the Parish of Saint Dunstan aforesaid where
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his Business lays one
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William Rogers
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who was standing by Dept.
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sayed there is a Drowned Man laying in the causeway of
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said Stairs that Rogers and Dept. went down the came way
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and found the deced lying with his face down wards quite
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wet the Tide having just left him that Rogers examined
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deced pockets but found nothing but bits of paper in them
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that the deced was a Ticket Porter and used to Work on the
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Quays that he has heard the deced called by the Name of
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which he used to answer to-that he has
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seen the deced working on the Quays there two Years past
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that the deced was conveyed in a Shall to
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John Bolter
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Sworn the 10th: Day of December 1789
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before me}
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T. Shelton Corr.
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